Letter

Abstract

Welcome to the fourth issue of Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship (TALES) from the Community College of Baltimore County(CCBC)! I hope you appreciate the diverse range of insights from our authors as much as I did. The opening perspective is an inspiring peek at a project that puts community college voices in the spotlight and continues to garner praise for doing so. The issue also contains featured tales, each from outside CCBC, showcasing community college efforts to support students by cultivating workplace skills and reducing costs through open educational resources in addition to supporting faculty with targeted technology training. This year’s research articles, all from CCBC faculty, center repeatedly on the quest to leverage classroom engagement to boost student success. They present the results from employing a variety of techniques from team Jeopardy to role play and forming real-world content connections to plickers. Are plickers new to you? They were new to me too! Check out the article on improving exam performance in business law to learn more. I also learned a lot from the review article on gender representation in engineering programs – as a female scientist I am frequently reminded that even in 2024 women still have strides to make towards equity in education. At least I can attest that TALES, from our editorial board to our reviewers and authors and hopefully you too, dear readers, has strong female representation.